Word: delphine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Delphin Michael Delmas, 84, famed criminal lawyer, defender in 1906 (for an alleged fee of $100,000) of Harry K. Thaw, originator of the phrases "brain storm" and "dementia Americana," and one of the first lawyers to make a successful insanity plea; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...rebate cases and impressed a fine of $27,000,000 (a new world's record). But scores of lawyers to one judge have made enduring public reputations out of participating in one famous case. Almost everybody associates the names of William Travers Jerome, as prosecutor, and those of Delphin M. Delmar and Martin W. Littleton, as counsel for the defense, with the several Thaw trials. Hundreds of people today can tell you that James W. Osborne prosecuted (1900) and John G. Milburn and George Gordon Battle defended Molineux. But even lawyers have to turn to the files...